On the day after her father's funeral, a respectable, middle-age woman reveals that she is intimately involved with a man who may be her stepbrother. The intricacies of how she has arrived at this moment unravel in this dramatic and searing tale of desire, love, guilt, and moral ambiguity. The secrets surrounding her Dutch mother and her Hungarian-Jewish father, as well as her Jewish ancestors in Budapest and Amsterdam are peeled away to reveal a shameful, cruel enigma at the core. The painful legacy of love and survival in time of war reverberates through the generations in this unflinching yet compassionate narrative.
- ISBN13 9781900850643
- Publish Date 10 May 2002
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Arcadia Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language Dutch